The Lovely Bones changed my perspective of heaven. Now I am not sure if death really can bring peace and heaven may not be all that perfect. In Susie’s heaven, she can have everything she wants; she just needs to think about it. That makes heaven a sort of perfect world. However, I think one of the themes of the book was about how there's no such thing as a perfect world, and that is why she can't have the one thing that she yearns for: a chance to feel and be human again. Susie says t

hat in her heaven “life is a perpetual yesterday”. Although she is surrounded by things that bring her peace such as a friendly roommate, a cheery neighborhood (it looks a lot like her school playground, with the good kind of swing set), and her deceased grandfather, it is a sad heaven for Susie because she can’t be with the people she loves on earth and she cannot tell them what happened to her. She repeatedly relives the horrifying events leading up to her death. All Susie can do is look down upon her family and friends and try to send them the slightest clues to her mysterious disappearance. This was an interesting view of heaven because I have always been told throughout my upbringing that in heaven there is peace after death. This book changed my opinion because in Susie’s heaven, there will never be peace until she can let go of life on earth. The Lovely Bones does not make me question my faith that there is a heaven, but I now question what my heaven will bring for me.

This book taught me the usefulness and value of fiction for real life circumstances. The result was that Sebold’s book forced me to realize how devastating rape is and how it can happen to anyone. The Lovely Bones exposed the truth that haven’t everything doesn’t necessarily create happiness and that the afterlife is all its cracked up to be. The Lovely Bones creates another image of what might happen after life. I now have a greater understanding for the pain, suffering, and alienation that comes from being raped. I think Alice Sebold did such an incredible job with this plot line because she herself was raped. I first heard of this book from my girlfriends who gave it great praise and were all moved by the story. I would recommend this book to all teenage girls, as I believe that it delivers an important message to be more aware of your s

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